Selectmen of Harpswell Petition. State of Mass The Honble Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled. The Petition of the Select men of Harpswell humbly sheweth, That it has ever been the practice of this Town for the Sake of Conveniency to chuse a Constable & Collector for an Island called great Sebascodegin, & another for the whole of the other Part of said Town; That at the last Annuall March Meeting a Person was chosen Constable & Collector for the whole Town excepting s Island, who availing himself of some Inadvertency which happened to take place is exempted; that upon an Adjournment of sd Meeting another was chosen, who also is cleared, upon which account there is neither Constable nor Collector in the Town excepting one upon the aforesaid Island, in Consequence of which a great Difficulty has arose, & still likely to increase - The March Meeting not being in Existence, your Petitioners humbly pray that this Hond Court would enable said Town to chuse a Constable & Collector for that part of the Town as usual which is destitute. And your Petitioners as in Duty bound, shall ever pray. John Rodick, Ezekiel Curtis } Selectmen Harpswell 23 Aug. 1784. Sir: Re Light House Money From the Port of York. York August 25th 1784 I take this oppertunity by my Good Brother Judge Sewall to present with the trifleing Sum of a Guinea for Lighthouse Money from the Port of York, tho it is Something more than I have as yet rec" which please to Carry to the Credit of your Most Humb' Servt £1..8..0 Rich Trevett, Naval Officer P. S. S' at the Close of the Year I Purpose, by the Leave of Providence to render an acct of my Proceedings Thos Ives Esq' Treasurer Petition of Inhabitants of Scarborough. Common Wealth of Massachusetts To the Honble the Senate and the Honble the house of Repre sentatives in General Court assembled This 13th Day of October 1784 The Petition of the Inhabitants of the first Parish in Scarborough humbly Sheweth that your Petitioners are very much wronged by the Division of the Said Town of Scarborough into two parishes: the first parish not having more than one third part of the whole Town which was never Intended at the time of Division for when the Town first agreed to Divide it was then Supposed that a bridge over Harmons Mill Creek on the County road was the Center or Midle of the Town without any Measureing or Survay which in fact is not by which means the first parish looses, more than twelve hundred acres of the best of their lands and not only so but a Committee appointed by the General Court to settle lines between Scarborough Falmouth and Gorham Since the Division of Scarb° into two parishes have taken off from the head of the Said first parish in Scarb° near two thousand acres of land which was at the time of Division allowed to belong to the first Parish: and no Division line ever run until lately between the two parishes Your Petitioners find the first parish is in a manner ruined having a Minister to Support with other heavey Charges which they are not able to bare up under Your Petitioners have applied to the Second Parish to Settle the line of Division as was first intended but they refuse Giving any Satisfaction and your petitioners have rested the matter for Redress untill now on account of the late war which Required almost the whole attention of the General Court Now your petitioners humbly pray that your honors in your Great wisdom will give us Releaf in Such way and Manner as Shall Seem best So that the first parish have their full part of the whole town as was meant and Intended and Should your Hon's think best to appoint a Committee to be on the Spot and hear both Sides of the Dispute then if your petitioners Complaint is found Causeless your petitioners will pay the whole of the Committees Charges that may arise thereon, or in Such other wise as your hon in your known Wisdom Shall See Meet all which is humbly Submitted and your petitioner as in Duty bound will ever pray Sam' Small Benja Larrabe Committee in Reuben Fogg Abraham Tyler Jr behalf of Sd Tim McDaniell parish Memorial of the Justices of the Lincoln Court of Common Pleas. Commonwealth of Massachusetts To the Hon Senate & the Hon. House of Representatives of sd Commonwealth in General Court assembled The Memorial of the Subscribers Justices of the Court of Common Pleas in the County of Lincoln Sheweth That the new Settlements on Kennebec, and parts adjacent, though greatly scattered have become considerably extensive -- that, as the distance is great, their travelling to Pownalborough the present Seat of the Court of Common Pleas is necessarily attended with much difficulty and expenceThat for these Reasons your Memorialists conceive that the appointment of another Session of the said Court, and of the Resolved that the Prayer of the said petitioners be So far Granted that Nathan Dane John Hill Esq"" & Mr Benjamin Hooper be a Committee to Ascertain the Quantity and value thereof, and Report as soon as may be, that the same may be Granted to the said Petitioners, and Under Such Restrictions as the General Court May then Order— Resolved that Col° John Allen be added to the Agents appointed at the present setting of the General Court, to pursue measures respecting the British encroachments on the eastern boundary of this Commonwealth, & to transact certain business with the Indians on Penobscot River—and, that any three of the said Agents be authorized to execute their Commission. Sent down for Concurrence S Adams Presid In the House of Representatives July 9th 1784 Sam A Otis Spk' In Senate July 9th 1784. Read & Non concurred & the Senate adhere to their own vote S Adams Presid Selectmen of Harpswell Petition. State of Mass The Honble Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled. The Petition of the Select men of Harpswell humbly sheweth, That it has ever been the practice of this Town for the Sake of Conveniency to chuse a Constable & Collector for an Island called great Sebascodegin, & another for the whole of the other Part of said Town; That at the last Annuall March Meeting a Person was chosen Constable & Collector for the whole Town excepting sa Island, who availing himself of some Inadvertency which happened to take place is exempted; that upon an Adjournment of s Meeting another was chosen, who also is cleared, upon which account there is neither Constable nor Collector in the Town excepting one upon the aforesaid Island, in Consequence of which a great Difficulty has arose, & still likely to increase - The March Meeting not being in Existence, your Petitioners humbly pray that this Hond Court would enable said Town to chuse a Constable & Collector for that part of the Town a usual which is destitute. bound, shall ever pray. And your Petitioners as in Duty John Rodick, Ezekiel Curtis Selectmen Harpswell 23 Aug. 1784. Sir: Re Light House Money From the Port of York. York August 25th 1784 I take this oppertunity by my Good Brother Judge Sewall to present with the trifleing Sum of a Guinea for Lighthouse Money from the Port of York, tho it is Something more than I have as yet rec" which please to Carry to the Credit of S' your Most Humb' Serv £1..8.. 0 Rich Trevett, Naval Officer |